Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to overly permissive CORS access policies (CVE-2016-9725)

Summary

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is affected by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which is a mechanism that allows web sites to request resources from external sites, avoiding the need to duplicate them.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-9725**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM QRadar Incident Forensics allows for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which is a mechanism that allows web sites to request resources from external sites, avoiding the need to duplicate them.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119741&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

• IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.n

Remediation/Fixes

• IBM QRadar/QRM/QVM/QRIF 7.2.8 Patch 4

Workarounds and Mitigations

None